Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-09-07 Thread Tim Tassonis
Shane Ambler wrote: On 2/9/2006 4:11, "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that with either the GPL or BSD, code is returned under a type of coercion. Not necessarily a bad thing, understand. The coercion of the GPL is legalistic. If you distribute GPL stuff, you've got to give

Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Scott Marlowe wrote: > ... It's much easier to donate your code to the project > and let other people maintain it then

Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-09-02 Thread Tom Lane
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scott Marlowe wrote: ... It's much easier to donate your code to the project and let other people maintain it then to try and maintain your own fork of the code and cross patch the

Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Scott Marlowe wrote: >>> ... It's much easier to donate your code to the project >>> and let other people maintain it then to try and maintain your >>> own fork of the code and cross patch t

Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-09-02 Thread Tom Lane
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scott Marlowe wrote: >> ... It's much easier to donate your code to the project >> and let other people maintain it then to try and maintain your >> own fork of the code and cross patch their changes into your own. > Ultrix and SunOS are two counter-examp

Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-09-02 Thread Shane Ambler
On 2/9/2006 4:11, "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that with either the GPL or BSD, code is returned under a type > of coercion. Not necessarily a bad thing, understand. > > The coercion of the GPL is legalistic. If you distribute GPL stuff, > you've got to give out the sour

Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 11:03, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:41:41 -0700, Josh Berkus >> wrote: [snip] > The coercion of the GPL is legalistic. If you distribute GPL > stuff, you've got to give out the sour

Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 11:03, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:41:41 -0700, > Josh Berkus wrote: > > > > In general, I think that people who harp on PostgreSQL's lack of a > > benevolent dictator as an inhibitor to progress are people who are not > > comfortable with democra

Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:41:41 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > > In general, I think that people who harp on PostgreSQL's lack of a > benevolent dictator as an inhibitor to progress are people who are not > comfortable with democracy and are looking for excuses why company X needs > to "take o

Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Bruce Momjian
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:11:52AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > I thought some people in this group may find this letter from one of > > NetBSD's founders very interesting. > > > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/0

Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 09:11:52AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > I thought some people in this group may find this letter from one of > NetBSD's founders very interesting. > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/08/30/0016.html > > It is current, to the point and has some direct corr

[GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I thought some people in this group may find this letter from one of NetBSD's founders very interesting. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/08/30/0016.html It is current, to the point and has some direct correlations with our project that we may want to be aware of. Sincerely, Jo